Senior showcase

Sophie Greenspan, Aaron Ten­bu­uren

Northeastern’s Department of Art+Design’s annual Senior Exhibition is now on display at Gallery 360. An opening reception was held Friday, where many guests had the opportunity to view the pieces, including an inkjet print by Mettie Ostrowski, AMD’14, titled “Self-portrait.” Photo by Mariah Tauger

Pho­tographs, oil paint­ings, videos, mini fur­ni­ture, and a sculp­ture made out of col­orful cough drops are among the art­work on dis­play at Gallery 360 in a new exhibit fea­turing the work of tal­ented North­eastern Uni­ver­sity seniors.

The annual Art + Design Senior Exhi­bi­tion is now on dis­play through June 1 at Gallery 360, located between Ell Hall and the Curry Stu­dent Center. The exhibit fea­tures works from 36 stu­dents in art, dig­ital art, studio art, and graphic design in the department’s joint pro­gram with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

“You have every­thing from work in the medium of the Web, next to an oil painting, next to a bronze casting,” Nathan Felde, chair of the Depart­ment of Art + Design in the Col­lege of Arts, Media and Design, said at the exhibit’s opening recep­tion on Friday after­noon. “The variety of media is really impor­tant. It’s lovely work.”

Seniors were asked to submit three pieces of work to a selec­tion com­mittee com­prised of Art + Design fac­ulty, which decided what would be fea­tured in the show. The com­mittee then worked with each stu­dent to deter­mine the best way to dis­play each piece.

“There are cer­tainly a wide variety of dis­ci­plines in the depart­ment,” said Thomas Starr, a graphic design pro­fessor who served on the selec­tion com­mittee. “We rec­og­nized great work when we saw it.”

Stu­dents, fac­ulty, staff were among those who attended the new Gallery 360 exhibit’s opening recep­tion on Friday, April 25. Photo by Mariah Tauger.

Sophie Greenspan, AMD’14, has a number of pieces in the exhibit including her senior project in which she designed stickers, posters, a T-​​shirt, and an annual report for Bikes Not Bombs, a non­profit in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neigh­bor­hood aimed at using bicy­cles as a vehicle for social change.

“This was essen­tially what I would do if I could reimagine the organization’s visual out­reach,” said Greenspan, who vol­un­teers there. Though the orga­ni­za­tion hasn’t seen her posters or stickers yet, it is printing the T-​​shirt she designed for its bike-​​a-​​thon in June.

Greenspan also won a com­pe­ti­tion among Northeastern’s graphic design stu­dents to design the Senior Exhi­bi­tion poster, which is also on dis­play in the gallery. Greenspan used chalk to make the design, which was then pho­tographed by Mettie Ostrowski, AMD’14.

“We felt an open com­pe­ti­tion was great because it added another ele­ment to the stu­dents’ final semester,” Starr said.

Aaron Ten­bu­uren, AMD’14, also drew inspi­ra­tion from his senior project for his piece in the exhibit. Ten­bu­uren, a graphic designer major, cre­ated fur­ni­ture pieces that can be easily dis­as­sem­bled and stored so they don’t take up space when they are not being used.

A minia­ture ver­sion of a stool, desk, and book­shelf Ten­bu­uren cre­ated are in the show. “The thing that really sparked this was not having enough space in my apart­ments over the years,” he said. “With fur­ni­ture, every­thing is cre­ated as art. I wanted this to be func­tional and artistic at the same time.”

One of the pieces fea­tured in the exhibit is titled “Table” and was cre­ated from tulle, brass, fas­teners, candy, wire, sand, water, cel­lo­phane, felt and foam. Photo by Mariah Tauger.